Manfrotto Befree GT XPRO Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod with 496 Center Ball Head

To the best of my knowledge, there are not. With that said, there is a simple modification that can be done. Standard spiked feet, etc, as used on most other still photography tripods have standard external threads that screws into an internally threaded end in the lowest (bottom, ground) segment of each tripod leg. The rubber "feet" on this tripod simply have right circular cylindrical "stems" that are pushed into, and held by elastomeric compression and friction. These "feet" are field replaceable parts, and can be removed by simply pulling each one out. Once this is done, there is a cylindrical hole in the ground/bottom end of the ground/bottom leg segment. One simply inserts (held by a bit of synthetic rubber, vinyl, or heat shrink tubing) a internally threaded insert made from a non-corroding material (stainless steel, aluminium, nylon, etc.) of the same internal thread as a spiked or other foot and with an external diameter to just slide into the cylindrical hole mentioned above, secured by the friction of the tubing mentioned after that above. One can set the threaded insert into place with epoxy, but this would void the warranty were Vitec (the actual transnational corporation that owns Manfrotto, Gitzo, Lowepro, and many other brands as of this writing) to disapprove of the modification. If the threaded insert merely is held by friction, and is removed if the unit must be warranted by Vitec in which case the minimal rubber "plug" foot would be re-installed. The lack of an internally threaded "hole" in the end of each leg is one small shortcoming of this Vitec Manfrotto otherwise professional travel tripod. However, the Vitec Gitzo "equivalent" does not have a macro-swing-over column design, an even worse shortcoming for my use. As the instructions from BH are: Please do not include HTML, links, references to other stores, pricing or contact info -- no one using this BH reply-to-question mechanism may provide actual ways to find the above threaded inserts unless BH sells these, which BH does not as far as I can find.

You can, but the legs are a bit on the light side to support the 504 head.

I’ve had mine for about a year. I haven’t found a good way to do this yet.

I disagree. There is a Manfrotto Arca-Swiss adapter, but I do not like it. However, with a Wimberley C-12 Quick Release Clamp BH #WIQRCC12 • MFR #C-12 and a Desmond DBAD Female to Male Boss Adapter for Select Manfrotto Heads B&H # DEDBAD MFR # DBAD , the Manfrotto ball head easily can be adapted to Arca-Swiss, assuming the RRS L-plate you have is the typical RRS pattern with a "built-in" Arca-Swiss style plate. With the Wimberley clamp, the entire tripod unit will fit in the bag supplied with the unit. I bought this to replace a much heavier Gitzo aluminum travel tripod along with the fact that it has a vertical center column that will shift to horizontal; this is a travel tripod when I do not want to (or cannot) haul a regular Gitzo tripod and "large" head. I have tested this tripod plus Wimberley clamp with a gripped Nikon D850 and Sigma 150-600 Sport with a Wimberley foot and a Sigma TC-1401 with the column in the vertical position; the tripod unit will carry the weight and is stable enough for real work in the field. As both Manfrotto and Gitzo now are Vitec divisions, and this tripod uses the Manfrotto G-lock system (a copy of Vitec Gitzo), I recommend it as a travel tripod.

You would want their Peak Design dual plate that works on both arca-swiss and 200PL. https://bhpho.to/3eSdzxm

The load capacity of this tripod is 22lbs with our without this head.

Yes, the head can be removed.

I'm sorry, no, you cannot use this tripod without the center column.